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    159. Young Putin, the KGB and the Soviet Union

    159. Young Putin, the KGB and the Soviet Union

    FromThe Rest Is History

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    159. Young Putin, the KGB and the Soviet Union

    FromThe Rest Is History

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    Length:
    37 minutes
    Released:
    Mar 7, 2022
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    [Episode 1 of 4]Welcome to our new four part series on the latter years of the Soviet Union, its fall, Putin's early life and his subsequent rise to power.Today's episode focuses on Brezhnev, Putin's formative years, his early KGB career and Gorbachev's descent into chaos.Was Putin a nationalist or a communist? What changed from Brezhnev to Gorbachev? What was Putin doing in East Germany during the Soviet twilight years?Next episode out tomorrow - or get them all at once by heading to restishistorypod.com!Producer: Dom JohnsonExec Producers: Tony Pastor & Jack DavenportTwitter:@TheRestHistory@holland_tom@dcsandbrookEmail: restishistorypod@gmail.com Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
    Released:
    Mar 7, 2022
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are interrogating the past, and attempting to de-tangle the present.They question the nature of Greatness, why the West no longer has civil wars and whether Richard Nixon was more like Caligula or Claudius.  They're distilling the entirety of human history, or, as much as they can fit into about fifty minutes.Join The Rest Is History Club (www.restishistorypod.com) for ad-free listening to the full archive, weekly bonus episodes, live streamed shows and access to an exclusive chatroom community.Here are some of our favourite episodes to get you started:WATERGATE/NIXON apple.co/3JrVl5hALEXANDER THE GREAT apple.co/3Q4FaNkHARDCORE HISTORY'S DAN CARLIN apple.co/3vqkGa3PUTIN & RUSSIA apple.co/3zMtLfX Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.